Happy new simpley! Simply Linux. Issue 3

    The new Simply Linux is out - an easy operating system for everyone. Despite the fact that this is the third issue that we are collecting on the Fifth Platform, the innovations are quite significant.
    Simply Linux

    Major innovations


    • in addition to installation images, a live version for CD appeared
    • kernel 2.6.32 (respectively, updated driver database)
    • significantly updated package base (new versions of key programs such as OpenOffice.org 3.2.1, Firefox 3.6.13, Gimp 2.6.11, Pidgin 2.7.7)
    • Wine emulator added to the base kit
    • Added support for Yota USB modems
    • added RPMInstall - a program with a graphical interface for installing RPM packages not included in the repository
    • new wallpapers from Vlad Gerasimov and New Year wallpapers specially prepared for Simply Linux by designer Anna Osmolovskaya.

    Frivolous innovations for serious business



    Together with Anya Osmolovskaya for Simply Linux, a character was developed - Simpli Fish. Despite the apparent childishness, his task is very serious - participation in various campaigning events. For example, we started a series of comics featuring Simpli Fish calling for Linux. The plans also use the character as an informal logo.

    Comic about Simply Linux

    First results


    Simply Linux project is one year old, you can try to summarize the first results. What really to hide - criticism falls on us from all sides. Why another distribution, why this program, and not that, make not a CD, but a DVD, change the installation program, add this program, make simplex Linux on the gnome, on lxde, remove openoffice ... many different tips and suggestions that we are trying to digest and systematize somehow. No criticism in any way, and we try to treat it adequately.

    But the most important thing is that the project works in the direction in which we planned. We manage to attract new users, those who have never used Linux before, and in most cases did not even know that there is any alternative to proprietary software. There are many such users, they do not just try the alternative, but try and stay. We judge the audience of users of the distribution by the letters that we receive in large quantities.
    From the letters we learned that Simpli Linux is used everywhere: at home, in small firms, in schools, research institutes, schoolchildren, students, and retirees. It is especially nice, of course, to receive letters of thanks and support.

    I want to say a big thank you to all the experienced and tried out more than one distribution and in more than one year users who support us. Perhaps not so much, since most of you have already established preferences, but nevertheless, it is important for us to authoritatively confirm not the futility of our efforts. That's how I wrapped :)

    Happy Simpli and Happy New Year!

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